Delta said it would stop “shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight.” But “Delta is actually one of the last airlines to prohibit the shipment of hunted animals,” Cynthia Drescher writes. “Most major airlines with routes to Africa—including Lufthansa, British Airways, Iberia, Air France, KLM, and Ethiopian Airlines—have taken it upon themselves in recent years to forbid such cargo.” American Airlines and United Airlines also said they would stop transporting hunting trophies. (Condé Nast Traveler)

JetBlue and Hawaiian Airlines joined two cargo carriers in forming the U.S. Airlines for Open Skies Coalition, which will advocate to keep international agreements governing air travel. “Open Skies agreements create competition by allowing air carriers, not governments, to decide the routes, capacity, frequency, and pricing of their services, based on market demand,” the group writes in a letter to the secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State, and Transportation. “This competition benefits all sectors of the U.S. economy, facilitating the movement of people and goods around the world, fueling growth and creating jobs,” the letter reads. (The Dallas Morning News)

Google is testing a hotel price drop feature that will alert travelers to better rates after a booking is made, functionality that some travel sites already offer. (Tnooz)

A deep desire to one-up social media contacts with photographs from “ever more exotic locations” could potentially damage the long-term health of a new generation of travelers, a new study reveals. “There is a dark side to this ‘glamorized’ hypermobile lifestyle that the media and society ignores,” the study authors write, adding “that most people who are required to engage in frequent travel suffer high levels of stress, loneliness, and long-term health problems.” (The Telegraph)

Two intrepid voyagers will challenge those assertions this summer, as the first ever Travel Fellows sponsored by the guidebook brand Wildsam, which is sending its reporters to the deserts of the Southwest and to New England to file Federal Writers’ Project-inspired dispatches throughout the summer. (Wildsam)

A hitchhiking robot met its untimely demise in a Philadelphia alleyway. Probably won’t see a Botlr at the Aloft Philadelphia Airport anytime soon, then. (Washington Post)